Trivia

Married her high school sweetheart Van Fagan on January 11, 2001 just a few months after finding each other on Classmates.com.

Miss Louisiana USA 1975.

Currently resides with her husband Van Fagen in St. Petersburg, Florida (2006).

Was hired by actor Wally George to play one of his guest loonies on his TV talk show, before she became hostess of the USA Up All Night (1989) series.

She graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in New Orleans with the Class of 1972 and received her Bachelor's degree in Communications from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1977.

Celebrity spokesperson for the Los Angeles Chapter of the United Scleroderma Foundation.

In 2015, Rhonda Shear for "USA Up All Night", was inducted into "The Official Horror Host Hall of Fame".

Attended the funeral of Joan Rivers, when the comedienne/television personality passed away on September 7, 2014.

Worked with former NBC executive Sissy Biggers on the daytime talk show 'Queens' where she got Sissy to appear live on Howard Stern's radio show in the 1990's.

Markets a line of women's control undergarments, with regular appearances on the Home Shopping Network.

Her parents were Wilbur Karl Shear (1914-1984) and Jennie Shear née Weaker (1917-2009). Her siblings are her older sister Nona Paillet who was once married to Ellis Jay Pailet, and brothers Melvin Barry Shear (born 1945) and Frederick H. Shear (born 1947).

Briefly hosted a comedy program called "Spotlight Cafe", hosted previously by comedienne Judy Tenuta.

When she was 21 and still in college completing her communications degree at Loyola University in the mid-70s, Shear was stripped of one of her debutante titles, the Queen of the Floral Trail Society, for appearing in a clothed Playboy Magazine pictorial. She used the press generated from this "sex scandal" to fuel her campaign for public office as the Register of Conveyances in New Orleans against the the man who was the president of that organization and stripped her of her title. She she was the first woman to ever run for public office in New Orleans and lost by only 135 votes. She was accepted to Loyola Law School in New Orleans, but decided to come to Los Angeles to act instead.

In early 2006, she starred in a production of "Steel Magnolias" at the St. Petersburg Little Theater.

Had met Joan Rivers at a cosmetic surgeon's office, when Shear needed to get her nose done.